Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Daring Bakers May 2015 - Lamingtons / Čupavci

It's been awhile since I participate in Daring Bakers Challenge. This month I decided I have to enter no matter what. And the challenge was great! Although lamingtons (here called čupavci) are really often made here in this part of the world and everybody will tell you that it's their favorite childhood treat, for me it's not that case. My mother don't like coconut and she simply don't make coconut cakes. So the lamingtons in my house are started to make when I began to cook. At one time I used to make it quite often, but then simple I forgot about them. The challenge Marcellina in cucina gave was great for me, but I decided to step out of my comfort zone and try something different. The result was great! For the sponge cake I used Marcellina recipe, but then I sandwich them with my homemade strawberry jam and coat them in white chocolate ganache made with coconut milk. The idea came by itself, since by the time I thought how to make lamingtons, my jam was on the stove and when I enter the pantry to grab jars for jam, there it was a can of coconut milk. If you don't like white chocolate use dark. You wan't use all of the jam from the recipe for the lamingtons, of course but I'm pretty sure you will find some other way to use it.

LamingtonsPlease scroll down for SerbianIngredients for the sponge:

5 eggs

225gr sugar

a pinch of salt

150gr cornflour

50gr plain flour

1,5 tsp baking powder

for the jam:

1kg chopped fresh strawberries

500gr sugar

juice from half a lemon

for the chocolate icing:

200ml coconut milk

200gr white chocolate

about 150gr shredded coconut

Directions:

First make the jam. Combine the strawberries with the sugar and leave on a room temperature a couple of hours or in a fridge overnight.Add the lemon juice and bring to a boil. Cook over a high heat for 10-15'. Divide it between sterilized jars.

Preheat the oven to 180C. Line a 23x33xm pan with parchment paper.

Whisk the eggs and sugar until the mixture is pale and triple in volume, for 10'. Sift both flours, salt and baking powder over the egg mixture and carefully fold it in. Spread the mixture into prepared pan and smooth the surface. Bake for 20-25'. Immediately take the baked cake from the pan and transfer to a wire rack to cool. Cut the sponge in 5x5cm squares and then cut horizontally each square. Sandwich them together using a jam, then dip each part in chocolate icing and roll in coconut.

For the chocolate icing, combine the coconut milk and chopped white chocolate in a saucepan and warm it up over a middle high heat to melt.